New to Grow
I’m a licensed therapist with a deep passion for human stories — stories of courage, resilience, healing, and change. I bring warmth, curiosity, and humor into the therapy space, and I aim to create a relationship that feels welcoming, attuned, and supportive. I work with thoughtful, motivated, and often creative adults who may appear capable on the outside but carry a lot beneath the surface. Many of my clients are navigating anxiety, burnout, life transitions, or relationship challenges, and have developed ways of coping that once helped them adapt but now feel limiting or exhausting. In therapy, I offer a space to slow down and listen inward. We work at a pace that honors the wisdom of your nervous system, gently exploring patterns while also strengthening your capacity for grounding, connection, and self-trust. Alongside the deeper work, there is room for play, creativity, and moments of wonder — for reconnecting with what brings meaning, pleasure, and aliveness. My hope is to support you in moving toward a more meaningful, authentic, and joyous life.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session is a chance for me to understand what’s bringing you to therapy at this point in your life and what you’re hoping for. I’ll listen closely, reflect what I’m hearing, and ask thoughtful questions to help us begin to understand what support might be most helpful. I’ll also share some of the ways I like working with clients. We’ll move at a comfortable pace, with the intention of beginning to build safety and connection and seeing whether working together feels like a good fit.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I bring warmth, curiosity, and a genuine sense of presence into my work. Clients often experience me as perceptive and attuned, with an ability to reflect back both what’s being said and what may be happening beneath the surface. I care deeply about helping clients recognize and celebrate their strengths and resilience, especially the parts of themselves that may have gone unseen or unacknowledged. My work is shaped not only by training and professional experience, but also by my own lived experience of grief, loss, and the healing process. This allows me to meet clients with depth, humility, and compassion. When it’s supportive, I bring humor into the work and help clients gently notice patterns that may be getting in their way, while staying grounded in care and respect. I know when insight is helpful and when it’s time to move out of the head and into the body, using experiential and somatic approaches to support regulation, release, and a deeper sense of resourcing. My aim is to offer therapy that feels collaborative, creative, and alive.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
The clients I work with are people who are reflective, motivated, and open to inner work. You may be seeking therapy because you want to understand yourself more deeply, explore patterns that no longer feel sustainable, and create meaningful, lasting change in how you relate to yourself and others. This work tends to be a good fit if you’re interested in slowing down rather than rushing to fix yourself, and if you’re open to approaching healing with curiosity and compassion. You may be looking not only for relief, but for greater presence, joy, embodiment, and a more authentic way of living.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use Internal Family Systems to help clients develop self-awareness and a more compassionate relationship with themselves. In this approach, patterns such as self-criticism, people-pleasing, or emotional shutdown are understood as protective responses that once served a purpose. As we gently turn toward these parts together, clients often feel more grounded, less overwhelmed, and better able to meet life’s challenges with presence and choice.
Relational
I work from a relational approach, which means the therapeutic relationship itself is an important part of the healing process. Many of the difficulties people bring to therapy — including challenges with trust, intimacy, self-worth, or self-criticism — develop within relationships and can be gently explored and transformed within a safe, supportive connection. Clients often find that feeling truly seen and understood helps them develop more authentic and connected relationships with others and with themselves.
Psychodynamic
I use a psychodynamic approach to help clients understand how past experiences and early relationships continue to shape their present. Often, difficulties such as recurring relationship struggles, self-criticism, or feeling stuck have deeper roots that aren’t always immediately obvious. By gently exploring these patterns together, clients can gain insight, emotional clarity, and greater freedom to respond to life in new ways.
Somatic
I use a somatic, trauma-informed approach to help clients build awareness of how stress, emotion, and past experiences live in the body. In our work together, we move at a pace that supports safety and choice, while also focusing on resourcing — identifying and strengthening internal and external supports that help the nervous system feel steadier and more grounded. Over time, clients often discover that safety, connection, and support can be felt within their own bodies, allowing them to move from chronic alertness into greater relaxation, ease, and a sense of safety. Sessions may include gentle mindfulness practices, breath work, and other grounding techniques that support regulation and presence.
Strength-Based
I work from a strength-based perspective that builds on what is already working in a person’s life. This approach focuses on clients’ existing strengths, inner resources, and adaptive capacities as the foundation for healing and change. In therapy, we collaborate to identify and build on these strengths while making space for what feels challenging, supporting growth, self-trust, and meaningful change.